It should come as no surprise that the Malignant Fascist's regime is targeting housing assistance for poorer Americans. Over a million renters face losing their homes as a result, as the Associated Press reports:
"Amid a worsening national affordable housing and homelessness crisis, President Donald Trump’s administration is determined to reshape HUD’s expansive role providing stable housing for low-income people, which has been at the heart of its mission for generations. The proposed changes include a two-year limit on the federal government’s signature rental assistance programs.
At a June congressional budget hearing, HUD Secretary Scott Turner argued policies like time limits will fix waste and fraud in public housing and Section 8 voucher programs.
“It’s broken and deviated from its original purpose, which is to temporarily help Americans in need,” Turner said. “HUD assistance is not supposed to be permanent.”
But the move to restrict such key subsidies would mark a significant retreat from the scope of HUD’s work. Millions of tenants moved in with the promise of subsidized housing for as long as they were poor enough to remain qualified, so time limits would be a seismic shift that could destabilize the most vulnerable households, many unlikely to ever afford today’s record-high rents." (our emphasis)
This is more of the "Project 2025" fascist plan to shift resources from the middle class and working families to pay for tax cuts for the Bezoses and Zuckerbergs of America. It's a feature of a party whose ethos has long been to "afflict the afflicted, comfort the comfortable." Despicable.
(photo: Shelby Knowles / Texas Tribune)
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